Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 25, 2016, 04:35:19 PM
Quite possibly the simplest and yet best solution.
Quote from: Perfect-Organism on Aug 25, 2016, 05:18:16 PM
Very good point about shutting off the gravity. Well done sir. I don't think I've heard that one before.
Thank you. We have 'ALIEN 3' now regardless of the decisions made by the studio to take the movie in unexpected directions. Directions that some people find hostile to their sensibilities and difficult to accept. Then again, if the 3rd film does live up to its title, doesn't it? Unexpected and hostile; and that is what these movies are about. So they should be.
If we take the available evidence, Yessir, we can explain the egg's existence. Accepting that the Queen is still capable of generating a 'spore' of some description and coupling that with powering down of the ships systems, including gravity generation, while the crew are in hypersleep we can come to a very reasonable and practical solution.
Finally, you could add these events into the narrative of a movie by having someone aboard, say, the Patna have coded remote access the Sulaco's flight records and have a visual via monitors of recorded security feed of Ripley's fight with the Queen, close ups of it dropping spores and those spores moving around the powered down ship and growing into eggs while Ripley and company are asleep.
Then crew of the Patna would have some understanding of what happened aboard the ship and that information is conveyed to the audience. They then board the ship and find, surprise!, there's a few more eggs than they anticipated via the security feed. Only 2 of which have been opened and those are the two we see on Fiorina in 'ALIEN 3'.
From here it's on with the movie... an 'ALIENS' movie told from the viewpoint of WY mercs. I'd take it in that direction. So much to offer right there with all these advantages: Continuity between 2nd and 3rd movie explained. New characters. New story. More pulse rifles. More Aliens. No need for a retcon. A true 'ALIENS' story spanning across both ships as infected WY mercs are returned to the Patna and containment for the contamination fails.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Aug 25, 2016, 08:17:26 PM
Agreed. I've been trying to sell that idea for a long time, though. Hopefully you'll have better luck convincing people.
People like their insect analogies when it comes to just about everything regarding the Alien so here's one that might just suit. We have hydrochloric acid in our stomachs essential for digestion. We digest our food internally but insects, houseflies, for example, digest their food externally. Houseflies are toothless and in order to eat they have a very specialised proboscis. They vomit up their stomach contents - including the acid - and dissolve their food. They then suck up the soupy nutrients via the proboscis.
Disgusting, right? Well, facehuggers have all these features. They lack a jaw. Acid is present. They have a proboscis. A juvenile facehugger may very well be able vomit up acid, digest local material for food (and egg construction) much like an insect does to feed. Tell them that.
Quote from: Perfect-Organism on Aug 25, 2016, 09:03:56 PM
This is ridiculous. It's time to let go of the egg on the Sulaco
That's not what it's time to let go off.
-Windebieste.